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Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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Webb, Jimmy.
Webb, Jimmy.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
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The cake and the rain /
Jimmy
Webb
.
by
Webb
,
Jimmy
.
St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Call #:
782.42164092 W366c
Subjects
Webb
,
Jimmy
.
Composers -- United States -- Biography.
Country musicians -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781250058416
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
346 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
"
Jimmy
Webb
's words have been sung to his music by a rich and deep roster of pop artists, including Glen Campbell, Art Garfunkel, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer, and Linda Ronstadt. He's the only artist ever to win Grammy Awards for music, lyrics, and orchestrations, and his chart-topping career has, so far, lasted fifty years, most recently including a Kanye West rap hit and a new classical nocturne. Now, in his first memoir,
Webb
delivers a snapshot of his life from 1955 to 1970, from simple and sere Oklahoma to fast and fantastical Los Angeles, from the crucible of his family to the top of his longed-for profession.
Webb
was a preacher's son whose father climbed off a tractor to receive his epiphany, and
Jimmy
, barely out of his teenage years, sank down into the driver's seat of a Cobra to speed to Las Vegas to meet with Elvis. Classics such as "Up, Up and Away," "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," "Wichita Lineman," "Galveston," "The Worst That Could Happen," "All I Know," and "MacArthur Park" were all recorded by some of the most important voices in pop before
Webb
's twenty-fifth birthday--and he thought it was easy. The sixties were a supernova, and
Webb
was at the center, whipsawed from the proverbial humble beginnings into a moneyed and manic international world of beautiful women, drugs, cars, and planes. That stew almost took him down, but
Webb
survived, his passion for music and work among his lifelines. The Cake and the Rain is a surprising and unusual book:
Webb
's talent as a writer and storyteller is on every page. His book is rich with a sense of time and place, and with the voices of characters, vanished and living, famous and not, but all intimately involved with him in his youth, when life seemed nothing more than a party and
Webb
the eternal guest of honor." --From publisher.
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Autobiographies.
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